Australian Supermarkets Scraper - Woolworths & ALDI Prices

Search Woolworths and ALDI the way you would on their websites, or paste a category or product link, and get one row per product: name, brand, size, price, was-price and saving, unit price, availability, image and link. Both stores answer the same search in one run, so a price comparison is a sort away.

Two things to know first. Coles isn't covered yet; Coles links are skipped and not charged. And Woolworths shows prices for the store picked by your suburb. Nobody picks one here, so you get the prices Woolworths shows when no suburb is set, and each row says which store that was (storeId). Your local shelf can differ.

Input	Search words, or Woolworths and ALDI category, product and search links
Output	One row per product: name, brand, size, price, was-price, saving, unit price, special, availability, categories, barcode (Woolworths), image, link
Ceiling	2,000 products per search or category, 20,000 per run
Speed	Roughly 600 to 1,100 Woolworths products a minute; ALDI is quicker
Account needed	None from you
Price	$0.28 per 1,000 products, flat on every plan. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 17,800

🔍 What Australian Supermarkets Scraper does

You give it what you'd type into the search box, full cream milk or vegemite, and it runs that search at Woolworths and at ALDI and returns every product each store lists, in the store's own order. Or paste links: a category page returns the products in it, a product page returns that product.

Prices are numbers, not text: 4.5, not "$4.50". Specials come with the old price and the saving worked out. The unit price comes both ways, 2.25 plus 1L, and as the shelf label prints it, $2.25 / 1L, so you can compare a 2L bottle with a 3L one without doing the sums.

Woolworths also lists products that other businesses sell through its website. On a search for milk that was two listings in three, mostly bulk packs and things that aren't groceries. You get Woolworths' own range unless you tick Include other sellers at Woolworths.

📋 What data you get from each Woolworths and ALDI product

What you get	Field
Which store, and what found it	store, searchTerm, inputUrl, position
The store's product number, name, brand and pack size	productId, name, brand, size
Price, old price, saving and the special's wording	price, wasPrice, savings, onSpecial, promotion
Unit price, as a number and as printed	unitPrice, unitPriceUnit, unitPriceText
Sold by weight (the price is for a typical pack)	soldByWeight
Availability	available, inStock, availableFrom
The store's own aisles for the product	categories
Barcode, Woolworths only	barcode
Sponsored listing and marketplace seller flags, Woolworths only	sponsored, marketplace
The store whose prices these are, Woolworths only	storeId
Product page and picture	url, imageUrl

▶️ How to scrape Woolworths and ALDI prices

1. Open Australian Supermarkets Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Type your searches into Search words, one per line, and tick the stores under Stores to search.
3. Or paste links copied from woolworths.com.au or aldi.com.au into Category or product links.
4. Set Products per search or category while you're testing, since you pay per product.
5. Click Start, then download the table as CSV, Excel or JSON, or read it through the Apify API.

Start it with everything empty and you get one labelled sample row, free, so you can see the columns first.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Woolworths and ALDI prices?

$0.28 per 1,000 products. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 17,800 products.

You pay for products delivered and nothing else. A search that finds nothing, a misspelt search, a product link that no longer exists, a Coles link and the sample row are all free. A product the store lists twice in one search, which Woolworths does with sponsored products, is returned and charged once.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["full cream milk", "vegemite"],
  "stores": ["woolworths", "aldi"],
  "urls": [
    "https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/browse/dairy-eggs-fridge/milk",
    "https://www.aldi.com.au/products/dairy-eggs-fridge/k/960000000"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 100
}

Field	Default	What it is
searchTerms	none	Searches, one per line, run at each ticked store. Up to 200.
stores	both	woolworths, aldi, or both. Applies to search words only.
urls	none	Woolworths or ALDI links: a category page, a product page or a search results page. Up to 500.
includeMarketplace	false	Also return products other businesses sell through the Woolworths website.
maxResultsPerSearch	100	The most products from one search at one store, or from one category link. Up to 2,000.
maxResults	5000	The most products in the whole run. Up to 20,000.

A link from anywhere else gets a free row saying it was skipped, and the rest of the run carries on.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 3 October 2026:

{
  "recordType": "product",
  "store": "Woolworths",
  "searchTerm": "milk",
  "inputUrl": null,
  "position": 9,
  "productId": "44528",
  "name": "Norco Full Cream Milk 2L",
  "brand": "Norco",
  "size": "2L",
  "price": 4.5,
  "wasPrice": 5.05,
  "onSpecial": true,
  "savings": 0.55,
  "promotion": "Save $0.55",
  "unitPrice": 2.25,
  "unitPriceUnit": "1L",
  "unitPriceText": "$2.25 / 1L",
  "soldByWeight": false,
  "available": true,
  "inStock": true,
  "availableFrom": null,
  "categories": ["Dairy, Eggs & Fridge", "Milk", "Full Cream Milk"],
  "url": "https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/44528/norco-full-cream-milk",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn1.woolworths.media/content/wowproductimages/large/044528.jpg",
  "barcode": "9322042000048",
  "sponsored": false,
  "marketplace": false,
  "storeId": "1101",
  "currency": "AUD",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T16:03:05.288Z"
}

Field	How to read it
price	Dollars, as the store shows it today. For meat ALDI sells by weight it's the price of a typical pack, and unitPrice is the per-kilo price. A product Woolworths lists as unavailable comes back with price: null and available: false.
wasPrice, savings	Only on a special; null otherwise.
position	Where the product sat in that store's results for that search, from 1.
inStock	Woolworths says; ALDI doesn't publish stock, so it's null there.
availableFrom	ALDI's date for Special Buys that go on sale on a set day.
storeId	The Woolworths store these prices belong to. Listings from other sellers carry their own number. null for ALDI, which lists one price per product online.
sponsored	Woolworths mixes paid listings into its results. They're real products at real prices; filter them out if you only want the plain search.
marketplace	true on a listing from another seller, which only appears when you ask for them.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset, and recordType tells them apart.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A product	recordType: "product"	yes
The sample row	recordType: "sample", _sample: true	no
A note about one search or link	recordType: "diagnostic", _diagnostic: true, an errorCode	no

Filter on recordType == "product" and you have your products. The notes say:

Code	What it means
NO_RESULTS	The store has nothing for that search or link.
DIFFERENT_SEARCH	The store didn't recognise the words and showed results for its own correction instead, named in suggestion. Nothing from that search is returned or charged; search for the suggestion if it's what you meant.
NOT_FOUND	The product link no longer leads to a product.
NOT_COVERED	A Coles link. Coles isn't covered yet.
BAD_INPUT	A setting or link that can't be used, or a Woolworths category that doesn't exist.
NOT_ANSWERED	The store didn't answer that search this time. Run it again later.
PARTIAL	A later page of results didn't come back. What came before it is in the dataset.
NOT_LOOKED_UP	The run stopped before reaching it: your spending limit, the run's total, or its timeout.
MAX_CHARGE_TOO_LOW	Your spending limit for the run doesn't cover one product.

RUN_REPORT in the run's storage lists every search and link with its outcome and how many products the store said it had.

💡 What people use it for

• Comparing a shopping list across both stores. Run the list as search words, then sort each search by unitPrice.
• Tracking prices over time. Schedule the same searches weekly and keep the rows; productId stays the same between runs.
• Watching specials in one aisle. Paste a category link and keep the rows where onSpecial is true.
• Feeding a budgeting or meal-planning app that needs real prices, unit prices and pictures.

A weekly price check in three steps:

1. Put your regular items into Search words with Products per search or category at 10.
2. Schedule the run for the same time every week.
3. Join each week's rows on store and productId and look at price and wasPrice.

🚧 What it does not do

• No Coles. Coles links get a free row and nothing else.
• No choice of suburb or store. Woolworths prices are the ones it shows with no suburb set, and storeId says which store that is.
• No stock counts. Woolworths says in stock or not; ALDI says nothing about stock.
• No reviews, nutrition panels or ingredients.
• No online orders at ALDI. ALDI Australia doesn't sell groceries online, so its rows are the prices it lists on its website.
• Search results follow the store's own search, sponsored listings included. A broad word like milk brings back milk chocolate and meal-replacement shakes too.
• Long Woolworths searches come up a little short. Its result pages repeat some products, so a search it says has 689 products returned 621 different ones. Reading past its last page brings back nothing new.

🧭 Which supermarket scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Woolworths and ALDI products and prices	This one
An alert when a product page on an online shop changes price or stock	Product Price & Stock Monitor
Supermarket locations and ratings from Google Maps	Google Maps Scraper
What shoppers say about one store	Google Maps Reviews Scraper
The same kind of product rows from Amazon	Amazon Scraper
Products and prices from a Shopify shop	Shopify Products Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Woolworths or ALDI account?

No. It reads what anyone can see on the two websites without logging in.

Why is a Woolworths price different from what I see in the app?

The app shows prices for the store your suburb or delivery area picks. This reads the prices Woolworths shows when no suburb is set, and storeId names that store. To check a row, open its link in a private browser window without choosing a suburb.

Can it scrape Coles prices?

Not yet. Coles links are accepted and skipped with a free note, so a list that mixes all three stores still runs.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/australian-supermarkets-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is it legal to scrape supermarket prices?

It reads public product pages, the same ones any shopper sees, and no personal data. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Include your searches or links and the run ID, and the log is enough for us to see what happened.